Whilst hybrid working seemingly meets the demands of workers for greater flexibility, prolonged remote working can create a more disconnected and distracted workforce. To avoid this, employers need to make office working more appealing to their staff.
In a new expert commentary piece for CoStar, OSC’s Managing Director, James Carver, sheds light on why improving workplace cleanliness is critical to getting workers to return to the office.
This piece highlights how office hygiene gripes have only been exacerbated by the pandemic, and that employees now have much higher expectations around the maintenance of workplace facilities.
James points out that whilst employers are implementing a range of strategies – such as workplace experiences - to encourage workers back into the office, the widespread concern around cleanliness should be enough for workplace hygiene to take centre stage in efforts to drive office working.
You can read James’ article in full here
Nobody walks into a meeting and thinks "extraordinary skirting boards." And yet — they notice. Not consciously. It lands as a vibe, not a thought. A clean, well-kept space whispers: these people have their act together. A slightly grubby one screams something else entirely, whether that's fair or not (it's not, but here we are).
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There's a very specific silence an office falls into when its cleaning contractor pulls a disappearing act post-contract. No dramatic exit. No "it's not you, it's me." Just... fewer replies. A missed bin here. A skipped Friday there. Suddenly you're the one chasing a service you're paying full price for.
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Nobody puts "reliable" on a mood board. It doesn't trend. Nobody's getting a tattoo of it.
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Workers more worried about cleanliness of desks and kitchen than bathrooms while male colleagues voted as worst offenders of hygiene “crimes” by nearly a fifth of respondents
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